Ovid-Metamorphoses-3.511-733
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ISBN
9781783740840
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Symbols and Terms
Reference Works
Grammatical Terms
Ancient Literature
Introduction
1. Ovid and His Times
2. Ovid’s Literary Progression: Elegy to Epic
3. The Metamorphoses: A Literary Monstrum
3a. Genre Matters
3b. A Collection of Metamorphic Tales
3c. A Universal History
3d. Anthropological Epic
3e. A Reader’s Digest of Greek and Latin Literature
4. Ovid’s Theban Narrative
5. The Set Text: Pentheus and Bacchus
5a. Sources and Intertexts
5b. The Personnel of the Set Text
6. The Bacchanalia and Roman Culture
Text
Commentary
511–26
Tiresias’ Warning to Pentheus
527–71
Pentheus’ Rejection of Bacchus
531–63
Pentheus’ Speech
572–691
The Captive Acoetes and his Tale
692–733
Pentheus’ Gruesome Demise
Appendices
1. Versification
2. Glossary of Rhetorical and Syntactic Figures
Bibliography
Editions, Translations, Commentaries
Other Literature
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